One Sentence Field Guide

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Curve-billed thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) - long, curved bill with orange eyes.

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Blue Grosbeak (Passerina caerulea) - blue bunting with silver bill and chestnut wingbars.

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Black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes) - black wings with yellow spots and blue highlights, tails on hindwings.

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Vesta Crescent (Phyciodes graphica) - bright orange with dark lines dividing the wings into numerous bars and cells, lacks contrasting bands above/below wings, some hindwing cells have dark spots.

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Great Spreadwing (Archilestes grandis) - largest damselfly, yellow racing stripe on side of thorax, abdomen is dark with blue/gray tip.

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Delaware Skipper (Anatrytone logan) - wings bright orange/yellow, upperside has black borders and black veins towards the margins, forewing has black bar at the end.

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Canyonland Satyr (Cyllopsis pertepida) - upperside is reddish-brown, underside of hindwing has dark line with curves towards the margins of the black spots.

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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) - no white spots on the orange prt of the wing, four eyespots on the underside of the wings.

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Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) - deep rich brown/black feathers with iridescence, male heads are red/white/blue with a beard.

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Rufous hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) - aggressive hummingbird with orange plumage.

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Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) - speckled brown-gray fur, rusty nape, large ears and fluffy white tail underside

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Black-chinned hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) - small green-backed hummingbird with thin strip of purple bordering on the black chin.

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Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni) - brown head with rufous tone to the underwing, brown/rufous upper breast creates a hooded appearance.

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Ornate Tree Lizard (Urosaurus ornatus) - tan-gray color, dark crossbars, enlarged scales down the back, males have bright colors on throat.

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American Snout (Libytheana carinenta) - distinctive, elongated mouthparts that looks like a snout.

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Checkered White/Southern cabbage butterfly (Pontia protodice) - white wings with gray/black checkered wing patterns on upper side of wing.

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Lark sparrow (Chondestes grammacus) - chestnut, black and white facial pattern with central black breast spot.